A veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing. Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths.
Cast: Gemma Whelan, Tahirah Sharif, Jimmy Akingbola
3 episodes
1. Episode 1DS Sarah Collins and her colleague, DC Steve Bradshaw, officers in the Directorate of Special Investigations (DSI), are called to an incident at Portland Tower in south east London. They find at the bottom of the tower the dead bodies of long-serving police officer, PC Hadley Matthews, and a 15-year-old Libyan refugee, Farah Mehenni.TV-14CC47minNov 8, 2021
2. Episode 2With Lizzie still on the run, Sarah finally persuades her boss, DCI Tim Bailie, to go public about Lizzie's disappearance. Later, she makes a series of discoveries about the events that led up to the Portland Tower fall which further complicate the case.TV-14CC46minNov 9, 2021
3. Episode 3Lizzie decides to turn herself in, but first she meets Kieran Shaw in secret, who tries to persuade her not to implicate herself. When Sarah finally interviews Lizzie, the explosive truth about what really happened on top of the tower emergesTV-14CC47minNov 10, 2021
The Tower
A veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing. Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths.
Creators and cast
- Created by
- Patrick Harbinson
- Studio
- Mammoth Screen, Windhover Films
Maturity rating
TV-14Check the rating before watching with younger viewers.
Audio languages
English
